UCD SBBS
@UCD_SBBS
UCD School of Biomolecular and Biomedical Science. Undergrad subjects: Biochemistry, Genetics, Microbiology, Neuroscience, Pharmacology
🎉What a night! Huge congrats to all our inspiring 6 finalists! We are delighted to announce the #ENGAGE2025 prizes: 🏆 Winner Clodagh Murphy @CloMurph 🌟 🥈Runner-Up @daviesmolly13🌟 Thank you so much for joining us in person and online!


Guest editors Eric Conway, Daniel R. Larson introduce COSB special issue on 3D Genome Chromatin Organization and Regulation: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…
🧬 This #SarcomaAwarenessMonth, Dr @FreemanFiona1 lab is developing 3D tumor models & nanoparticle therapies to stop osteosarcoma in its tracks—especially when it spreads to the lungs. New tools, new hope. 🎗️💛 #FightSarcoma #YellowForSarcoma #METACHIP
🔨👩🎓 Historic! Huge congratulations to UCD Ad Astra Academy sports scholar Nicola Tuthill, who has just claimed Ireland's first silver in the Hammer Throw at the European U23 Athletics Championships. The 21-year-old UCD Science student earned the runner-up spot at the…
Nicola Tuthill made history at the European Under-23 Championships yesterday by claiming silver in the women’s hammer. It's the first field event medal for Ireland at the championships. #RTEsport
👩🎓✨ Huge congratulations to Professor Joanna Brück of the UCD School of Archaeology on her election as an International Fellow of The British Academy, the highest honour the Academy confers on non-UK residents in recognition of scholarly distinction. A leading expert on the…
Amazing new initiative with a seriously impressive budget (€2.25M to 3.25M) to attract researchers to Ireland! Would be great to get some more chromatin biologists here! 👀🧬
Research Ireland, on behalf of @DeptofFHed, have today launched Global Talent Ireland - a new initiative to attract exceptional mid-career and established researchers from across the globe to Ireland. For more information visit: researchireland.ie/funding/global…
Now that’s how to open a microbiology congress #fems2025. Fabulous opening ceremony to @FEMSmicro in Milan
🧵 Cut From The Same Cloth: The Fabric of our Lives A vibrant textile & multimedia exhibition by Lorna Donlon, created with local communities. 📍 Pearse Museum, Rathfarnham 🗓️ 15 July – 14 Sept In partnership with @UCDConway #IrishArt #TextileExhibition #CommunityArt
🎉 Congrats to Conway Fellows Profs. Rory Johnson (SBES) & Brian Rodriguez (Conway Institute) — proud contributors to Ireland’s 72 newly certified sustainable labs 🌱 Their teams are already leading with @mygreenlab-certified spaces 👏 #SustainableResearch #GreenLabsIE
🏅👩🎓 GOLD! Huge congratulations to UCD Ad Astra Academy Elite Sports Scholar Eve McMahon, who has just taken top prize at the LA Grand Slam. One of World Sailing’s four prestigious Grand Slam series events, the LA Grand Slam took place off Long Beach, California, where the…
💙💛A planned €87 million expansion of sports facilities at University College Dublin is now underway The development is the second phase of the UCD Student Sports and Amenity Precinct Project, and will see the construction of a new three-storey multipurpose sports hall beside…
Thank you to my friends and colleagues for supporting my fundraiser. Please continue showing your support and help me reach my goal at: …challenge.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/participants/M…
🎓 Huge congrats to our newest #PhD graduates!🌟 We are so proud of their contributions to science & our research community. Their research tackles major challenges in health, disease & the environment.🌍🔬The future of science is brighter with them!🧪 👏#ScientificDiscovery

💙💛 Congratulations to all the students and their families who joined us on campus this week to celebrate their graduation, marking the end of an important chapter in their academic journey. 📜 Undergraduate degrees, postgraduate awards, diplomas, certificates and research…
Thoughts to all their families and friends on the 10th anniversary of the Berkeley balcony tragedy, especially to the family and friends of Aoife Beary, one of our @UCD_SBBS @ucdscience graduates who fought tirelessly for greater safety regulations.
💙💛 On the tenth anniversary of the Berkeley balcony tragedy, the UCD community fondly remembers those who sadly lost their lives, UCD students Lorcán Miller, Niccolai Schuster, and Eimear Walsh, along with their friends Olivia Burke, Eoghan Culligan, and Ashley Donohue. We also…
Thinking today, on the tenth anniversary of the Berkeley tragedy, of Aoife Beary, Olivia Burke, Eoghan Culligan, Ashley Donohoe, Lorcán Miller, Niccolai Schuster and Eimear Walsh, and of their family and friends. They will always be remembered as part of the @ucddublin community.
Excited to share that I will be taking on 135km of the Tour Du Mont-Blanc, a hiking 🥾 challenge across the Alps. To make this more memorable, I joined a team challenge for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation @CrohnsColitisFn More info in the 🧵👇🏻 …challenge.crohnscolitisfoundation.org/index.cfm?fuse…
Big thanks to PhD students Mary O'Reilly (Kolch/Krstic groups), Megren H. A. Fagihi (S Bhattacharjee group), Méabh Ní Chathail (H Roche group), and Ciaran Carey (S McClean group) for their excellent talks last week—great insights and engaging presentations! 👏🎓 #PhDResearch
Undergraduate Courses Webinar Series The upcoming 25-26 June 2025 webinar series will cover undergraduate courses in Science, Sustainability, Computer Science and Actuarial & Financial Studies. It will focus on the first year experience and provide an opportunity to ask questions…
Huge congrats to Simran Khatri, Stage 3 Pharmacology student @ucd_sbbs , joint winner of the 2025 Mary Mulvihill Award @RememberingMary Her essay “In Life for Life – A Monologue from the Heart of a Young Researcher” explores the ethics of animal research bit.ly/4mtiwPR


Welcoming cytometry experts Dr Barry Moran from @tcddublin , Sarah Hunter from @thermofisher and Mark Cheetham from @ACytometry to @UCD_Conway for the first day of the 2025 UCD Conway Flow Cytometry Summer School.